Comments on: HOWTO decorate like a Mafia bosshttp://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/howto-decorate-like-a-mafia-bo.html
Brain candy for Happy MutantsMon, 30 Mar 2015 20:24:05 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: Anthttp://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/howto-decorate-like-a-mafia-bo.html#comment-1422420
Sat, 12 May 2012 03:46:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1422420Ugly.
]]>By: trippleveehttp://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/howto-decorate-like-a-mafia-bo.html#comment-1418767
Wed, 09 May 2012 12:48:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418767No, no, no. It’s all wrong, there isn’t any plastic on the furniture.
]]>By: trippleveehttp://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/howto-decorate-like-a-mafia-bo.html#comment-1418768
Wed, 09 May 2012 12:48:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418768No, no, no. It’s all wrong, there isn’t any plastic on the furniture.
]]>By: loroferozhttp://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/howto-decorate-like-a-mafia-bo.html#comment-1418720
Wed, 09 May 2012 11:22:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418720Camorra is not Mafia. They are organized crime modalities and organizations from Southern Italy alright. But as far as I know… They are different and with completely different origins. Even in these days they are different from each other.
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Wed, 09 May 2012 09:01:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418643Quote by art critic Dave Hickey. A deep quote, food for thought and grounds for further research (introspection).

This type of kitsch might be cool, if it didn’t have the stigma of being almost exclusively associated to greedy, needy and paranoid sociopaths, even as the style screams out “Here I am, come and get me!”, or in Scarface parlance, “Take a good look at the bad guy!”

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Wed, 09 May 2012 08:27:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418628Tune in next week for more surprises, here on Donald Trump Home Makeovers.
]]>By: niktemadurhttp://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/howto-decorate-like-a-mafia-bo.html#comment-1418626
Wed, 09 May 2012 08:26:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418626Although for the full-on effect, a Lladro crucifix would have been… simply awesome.
]]>By: Lemoutanhttp://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/howto-decorate-like-a-mafia-bo.html#comment-1418621
Wed, 09 May 2012 08:17:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418621Said it before, and’ll say it again – 3d modelling software’s much too easy to get.
]]>By: niktemadurhttp://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/howto-decorate-like-a-mafia-bo.html#comment-1418616
Wed, 09 May 2012 08:11:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418616… and every other previous president. Yet the White House always seems to be “tastefully appointed”. For some reason, that combination of terms in quotes gives me the giggles, sorta like “luncheon meats”.
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Wed, 09 May 2012 08:03:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418614 nailed it, sir. everybody’s taking their shots, but I guarantee there is nothing remarkable about their homes. and everytime there’s a steampunk post or geeky, ironic 3D printed object post, they probably crowd the comments with accolades. man, whatever. this cat was probably a deplorable human being, but his crib is fully macked-out; and if you can’t get that, get the bozak.
]]>By: Wreckrob8http://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/howto-decorate-like-a-mafia-bo.html#comment-1418613
Wed, 09 May 2012 08:00:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418613In the German north and the Roman/Greek (?) south?
]]>By: Warren_Terrahttp://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/howto-decorate-like-a-mafia-bo.html#comment-1418593
Wed, 09 May 2012 07:11:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418593Putting your awards in the bathroom also has the advantage that anyone visiting the house is likely to have to spend some time in the room alone with the evidence of their host’s success. There are other places in the house a visitor can’t miss (I know a Nobelist whose medal is the only thing in their entryway, in a big presentation box), but noplace else in the house can the guest be expected to linger with no distractions.
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Wed, 09 May 2012 06:43:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418582After watching Erik Gandini’s sensational documentary Videocracy (NSFW), I would venture to say that if this is Mafia decor, then every powerful and famous person in Italy is in the Mafia. They uh, don’t really do the whole “understatement” thing.
]]>By: retepslluerbhttp://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/howto-decorate-like-a-mafia-bo.html#comment-1418566
Wed, 09 May 2012 06:03:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418566Dunno. Pres. Obama seems to be pretty open to suggestions.
]]>By: Warren_Terrahttp://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/howto-decorate-like-a-mafia-bo.html#comment-1418509
Wed, 09 May 2012 04:33:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418509William Langewiesche had an incredible article in Vanity Fair about the Camorra. This Nicola Schiavone character figured heavily as a sort of stupider, crasser version of Sonny Corleone: the younger-generation spoiled brat with no common sense, no constraints, and no sense of decency.
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Wed, 09 May 2012 04:33:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418510Just remembered something the late, great Lee Hazlewood said about his home in Arizona.

“I put all my gold records in the guest bathroom’s wall, so when people went in and flipped the switch, the room lit up gold. Many of them came out of there with their business still in their hand, going ‘My God!'”

But that was something else entirely, an wonderful eccentricity.

]]>By: Oskar_Gruchenhttp://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/howto-decorate-like-a-mafia-bo.html#comment-1418501
Wed, 09 May 2012 04:25:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418501“Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else’s privilege”
]]>By: robuluzhttp://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/howto-decorate-like-a-mafia-bo.html#comment-1418485
Wed, 09 May 2012 04:16:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418485Its not to my taste, but I get it. “Go big or go fuck yourself”.

I think it works.

I’d be happier there than in a new build with cheap mass produced ‘Ye Olden Days’ style decor. At least this place knows what it is.

]]>By: robuluzhttp://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/howto-decorate-like-a-mafia-bo.html#comment-1418486
Wed, 09 May 2012 04:16:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=159217#comment-1418486Its not to my taste, but I get it. “Go big or go fuck yourself”.

I think it works.

I’d be happier there than in a new build with cheap mass produced ‘Ye Olden Days’ style decor. At least this place knows what it is.